October 21, 1854

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Features

Boynton's Hat Machinery

Hutchinson's Stave Jointer

Brick Burning with Bituminous Coal

How to Talk to the Deaf

Gelatinous Substances

Telegraph to America

Recent Foreign Inventions

Making Paper from Wood

Bolting Flour

Fire Arms

Horse Shoeing Apparatus

Wardrobe Bedsteads

Explosive Shot for Cannon

Improvement in Gates

Latest News of the Arctic

Frightful Collision at Sea

Hot-Air Politics

To Exhibitors

Gardner's Oscillating Engines

British Association of Science

Wethered's Steam and Stame Apparatus

A Few Words on Patents

Portable Force Pumps

List of Patent Claims

Robert Fulton

Horse Power Applied to Music

Terms of Advertising

Substitute for Coal

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Coal in the Arctic Regions

History of Reaping Machines--No. 4

Immense Fields of Gypsum

Ohio Coal

The Magnet and Cold

Departments

From the Editor

To Correspondents

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